“There are and always will be thousands of princes, but there is only one Beethoven!”
“Beethoven speaking to royalty: "What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.”
“What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.”
“In a crowd of a thousand boys claiming to be the prince, there would be only one with the same look of trouble in his eye.”
“I know of only one composer who measures up to Beethoven, and that is Bruckner.”
“Two thousand million people in the world, and the one who has to decide their fate is is the only one who's always hidden from me.”